vcpkg/docs/maintainers/vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig.md

# vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig

The latest version of this document lives in the [vcpkg repo](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/docs/maintainers/vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig.md).

Fix common paths in *.pc files and make everything relative to $(prefix).
Additionally, on static triplets, private entries are merged with their non-private counterparts,
allowing pkg-config to be called without the ``--static`` flag.
Note that vcpkg is designed to never have to call pkg-config with the ``--static`` flag,
since a consumer cannot know if a dependent library has been built statically or not.

## Usage
```cmake
vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig(
    [RELEASE_FILES <PATHS>...]
    [DEBUG_FILES <PATHS>...]
    [SKIP_CHECK]
)
```

## Parameters
### RELEASE_FILES
Specifies a list of files to apply the fixes for release paths.
Defaults to every *.pc file in the folder ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR} without ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/

### DEBUG_FILES
Specifies a list of files to apply the fixes for debug paths.
Defaults to every *.pc file in the folder ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/

### SKIP_CHECK
Skips the library checks in vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig. Only use if the script itself has unhandled cases.

### SYSTEM_PACKAGES (deprecated)
This argument has been deprecated and has no effect.

### SYSTEM_LIBRARIES (deprecated)
This argument has been deprecated and has no effect.

### IGNORE_FLAGS (deprecated)
This argument has been deprecated and has no effect.

## Notes
Still work in progress. If there are more cases which can be handled here feel free to add them

## Examples

* [brotli](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/ports/brotli/portfile.cmake)

## Source
[scripts/cmake/vcpkg\_fixup\_pkgconfig.cmake](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig.cmake)